If you are asked if you wish to merge your registry file, click yes to successfully add the registry entry.You will get a warning about altering the registry, click ‘yes’ to continue.Go to the file you created on the desktop and right click it and run as administrator.Save the file to your desktop as ExtendedTime.reg.In your notepad window, go to file > ‘save as’.The dword value 000186a0 is a hexadecimal value that translates to 100,000 seconds in decimal values, so your mouse hover gesture will wait for 100,000 seconds before displaying the taskbar live thumbnail.Copy and paste the registry entry below.By setting an extremely high user interface hover time in the current user registry, the peeking feature will never have enough time to ever appear.
Hover times are specific to users unless set in the group policy. Method 2: Increase the user interface hover time in the registry This article will show you how you can disable live taskbar thumbnail previews with the methods below.
When the mouse hovers over a task accidentally, the peek feature can also be annoying.
However, this feature seems to be a nuisance to some users who would rather quickly switch to the task. In Windows 10 however, the live thumbnail preview is activated by the ‘Peek’ feature. The two are somewhat related and in Windows 7, turning off Aero Peek could turn off the taskbar thumbnail previews too. This is not to be confused with Aero Peek that helps your get a peek of your desktop by hovering your mouse on the far right corner of the taskbar. This has been a handy feature that lets you view tasks easily and still get to your current task easily. By hovering on the thumbnail that pops up, you can be able to sneak a peek of what is running on task window without actually going to the task. The hover time is predefined, and the default is set to half a second. By hovering the mouse on a task on the taskbar, a thumbnail preview pops up and shows what is running on the selected application.
As first seen in Windows 7, thumbnail previews let you have a peek on the tasks on your taskbar.
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